Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif)

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif)

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif) (closeup)

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif) (reverse)

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif) (closeup, reverse)

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif) (signature)

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif)

Signed: MB 96

Note on Reverse:

In February 1719 Jean Baptisie Le Moyne, Sieur De Bienville, put fifty men to work clearing land for a new settlement to be called New Orleans. The area they began clearing is now known as the French Quarter.

By 1722, New Orleans with a population of less than 500 people became the capital of French Louisiana.

In 1788 and 1794 two great fires destroyed large portions of the city. Governor Francois Louis Hector, Baron De Carondelet, determined that cinders from chimneys set the wooden shingles on fire. The flames quickly spread among the closely built wooden houses of the city. Governor Carondelet caused new buildings to be built with slate roofs. Slates were imported from Cuba and other areas.

Captains of sailing fleets brought the slate over and using them and cobblestones for ballast. Once here the cobblestones were used in the streets and the slates were cut and used for roofing material. The slates are between 100 and 200 years old.

[For this painting] Hand crafted to size.

 

4.5 x 11 inches

12.96 ounces

367.5 grams

 

New Orleans

 

March 1996

Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif)